The logo for Yale’s Skull and Bones secret society. “As they become more isolated from the wider community, are more interested in themselves than society and they become like a cult – normal constraints are released and they feel they can do anything they want,” said Abrams. Members have in the past been known to trash bars and students’ rooms like common thugs, and one rite apparently required members to burn a £50 note in front of a homeless person.
The prime minister was also in Oxford’s Bullingdon Club, whose members wear vividly colored, bespoke formalwear advertising their allegiance. A member’s demonstration of high pedigree combined with base loyalty can win him trust and advancement among his peers for life.Ĭameron’s alleged activities took place in the Piers Gaveston student society at Oxford – a group which, according to the Daily Mail, specializes in “bizarre rituals and sexual excess”. Getting through extreme rituals in one of the world’s most exclusive clubs, he further explained, can be a traumatic but invaluable down payment for a young, ambitious member. “Most social groups have some sort of entry procedure – but some are more bizarre than others,” said Dominic Abrams, professor of social psychology at Britain’s University of Kent, in a beautiful piece of academic understatement.
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